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title: When the officers and men saw that Captain Cook and some others had… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the officers and men saw that Captain Cook and some others had been killed, they ran down, got on the boat, fired guns and killed many of the natives. Who acts: officers, daggers. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 184

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When the officers and men saw that Captain Cook and some others had been killed, they ran down, got on the boat, fired guns and killed many of the natives.

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**Who acts:** officers, daggers · **What happens:** see, kill, run down, get, fire · **To what, where:** Captain, boat, many · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officers, daggers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:12:184
# text = When the officers and men saw that Captain Cook and some others had been killed, they ran down, got on the boat, fired guns and killed many of the natives.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the officers and men |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | Captain and some others |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | past | daggers *= dagger* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | participle | daggers *= dagger* *not said here* |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on boat=Source |
| 5 | **fire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **kill** | past | daggers *= dagger* *not said here* | many of the natives |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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